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141. Mozart's Sonatas, Through the Centuries
141. Mozart's Sonatas, Through the Centuries
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20 minutes
Released:
May 1, 2012
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Podcast episode
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Works for piano performed by Paavali Jumppanen.Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332Mozart: Fantasy in C minor, K. 475, and Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457A funny thing happened on July 31, 1990 at the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Deep in a storage space, a controller scouring for historical records found the fourteen-page manuscript to Mozart’s Fantasy and Piano Sonata in C minor, an incredibly important autograph edition that later sold at auction at Sotheby’s for some $1.7 million. It’s a rather extreme example of the case that can be made for the enduring significance of Mozart’s music. We begin this episode with Mozart’s Sonata No. 12 in F Major. Those interested in historical performance practice will be delighted to know that Mozart’s own ornamentation of the second movement has been preserved in an extant first edition, offering a glimpse into the sort of embellishments a consummate player would have been expected to add. We then hear that discovery from the seminary vault: Mozart’s Fantasy and Sonata in C minor. Here, too, we find evidence of Mozart’s performance style: the manuscript found in the safe in 1990 offers an entirely different set of ornaments than the previously published edition. As pianist Paavali Jumppanen proposes, it’s likely that the composer himself played the piece a bit differently each time, and that flexibility is reflected in the changes visible between the different scores.
Released:
May 1, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
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